Tuesday, 5 January 2016

The Adventures of Jo's Christmas Pudding - starring Aidan Turner?!

At
school I once borrowed a book from the library which caused much amusement
amongst my classmates when my Form Tutor read out a message from the Librarian
stating it was due for renewal or return.

The
tome in question was called 'The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding' - but in
my defence it was an Agatha Christie, not a children's book about a plum
pudding fulfilling its Christmas destiny.

I
mention this now because there's been a recent real-life adventure involving a
Christmas pudding.Every year, outside
The Yews in Gretton, two 100-year old (approx) box bushes are decorated to
resemble Christmas puddings.

Jo's
puddings are legendary throughout North Northamptonshire and Rutland.Visitors make pilgrimages down the High
Street just to see them, and they bring big smiles to many faces, young and
old.

However,
on the Monday night before Christmas, Jo's pudding tops were stolen.

A
Facebook appeal to have them returned was sadly then followed by an even worse
theft being committed the following night.Somebody removed one of the box bushes altogether by dragging it out
from the garden using a rope and vehicle of some description.

Despite
more appeals the culprits have yet to be found.

Everyone
in the area is shocked that anybody could do such a thing - a drunken prank
stealing the pudding tops is one thing, but a premeditated return to the scene
and removing an ancient box tree is in another league.Please call Crimestoppers or 101 if you have
any information.

On
a lighter note, perhaps this crime could be made into an Agatha Christie-type
mystery, starring Aidan Turner.

I'm
not sure what storyline we'll have to engineer to have him appear topless in
Gretton though - maybe Jo could 'accidentally' spill a glass of red wine over
his white shirt, which we then have to wrestle off him and wash straight away.It won't help with the tree, but it might
help ease the pain of its loss!